skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no news article where I lived (or international) that predicted that resistance would only last weeks or months. Those that did make any prediction about the length of the war pointed towards modern wars like those in the middle east, which demonstrated that modern wars do not end suddenly regardless of what progress either side makes. As long as people have access to weapons there will be enough resistance to make an area a constant war zone.

In the past you needed large armies standing in a line, and tanks to crush that line. When armies made enough progress the remaining soldiers either surrender or ran away. Today you can have a handful people operating a drone to sink a warship, or fire a missile against a plane, or just planting random explosives and mines. They get killed and a new group pop up elsewhere doing the exact same thing. The only method to actually win by eliminating resistance becomes burning down every building and killing every person who used to live there, which obviously is immoral and hurts military moral, takes a lot of time, a lot of resources and people, and diplomatic resources. For a country like Ukraine or Russia it would take decades or centuries.
I have read this article many times, usually whenever I look at Forth for whatever reason. As a non-computer scientist I learn a little about language design every time I look at it. But,I can never figure out what the author actually thinks about Forth. It seems like he is interested by it and sometimes amazed by it but has concerns and ultimately decides it is not for him. I could be way off on multiple axes though.
You get so many respondents, you can give them all different combinations. Each race you disregard the losers, and when the population gets low enough you might miss a race, you just say "hey, I predicted x races, call Bob to confirm".
I believe the punishment for piracy is hanging?
In our relentless pursuit of the perfect interface between mind and machine, we build monuments to our own discontent. Each click, each tactile response, each millimeter of travel becomes a meditation on what we seek but cannot name. We spend fortunes to recreate the feeling of something we've never felt, chase echoes of satisfaction that fade with each new acquisition, and find ourselves surrounded by shrines to our own restlessness. In this symphony of springs and switches, we are all apprentices to an art that has no master.
> Critiques by others aren't really useful signals unless you critique the critiques carefully - and who has time?

Well, I take the time and about a quarter of my most impactful papers have been such critiques. How do we encourage it? Well, ICLR (or was it NeurIPS?) a few years ran a replication challenge where if you could replicate a paper you got co-authorship. Not sure how much I love that strategy, but I am sure there are ways to create a sane "economy" around it.

As for whether we are better or worse off with the current state in my own field: I do not know. We end up in some sort of social science-esque argument where we simply can not prove the experiment either way as it can only be run once and have to argue on very shaky grounds (it also does not help that the field is exploding unlikely pretty much no other field ever has, which comes with its own issues). I think I am keeping up and I think that I personally have a decently objective view, but I can not prove that to you. What I can say is that there is not a single scientist around me that is not acutely aware of the problems with the previous and current systems. But given how "bottom up" we are without big beasts like Elsevier around that would have a deep financial interest to enforce the status quo, I believe we will arrive at solutions and faster than we otherwise would. There will be pain, yes, but see for example TACL, ACL Rolling Review, ICLR, etc. These are all initiatives that have been fielded by the community and I would argue two have already been great successes and one is struggling, but, could succeed.
I'm not sure that's unreasonable, as there's a fairly large difference between a house and an apartment - usually on the scale of several floors.
By looking at the streetview image [1], and assuming this is the correct concrete wall they hit, my best guess is that this is just the "fencing" around the airport. Letting an airplane run past the wall would have meant allowing an airplane to cross a few streets past the end of the runway.

It would be nice to know what are the regulations around this topic though, having a concrete wall at the end of a runway can definitely be fatal (as we've seen here)

[1]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yFx9u1AE1kZhM9iW8
I don't believe one needs a startup to solve that problem - there are already a bazillion certification paths for a bazillion tech stacks. The(?) problem is one of trust from the hiring org that the certs mean anything, and that's where the whole discussion devolves into one of (gatekeeping|but muh leetcode|our business problem is special|$other)
I don't pay attention to Spotify, are you saying YT Music is lacking features? If so, which one(s)?
What is the DEI thing?

35, West African Immigrant (US Citizen), 12 Years of experience. Currently at Yr 4 at Fortune 500 Tech Company (Prior at Consulting). Bachelor Non-Stem. Customer Success/Implementations, Technical.

I've been applying since Feb 2024. 47 External, 5 Internal, 6 HR Screens, 6 Phone Interviews, 6 (3+ Rounds) and 6 Rejections.

No AI just careful tweaks for each submission so its time intensive but I feel like its tough for everyone.
Especially for a company which heavily markets about how privacy-focused it is,

1)sending my personal data to them in any way is not a "feature." It's especially not a feature because what it sets out to do is rather unnecessary because every photo has geotagging, time-based grouping, and AI/ML/whatever on-device keyword assignments and OCR. I can open up my phone right now and search for every picture that has grass in it. I can search for "washington" and if I took a picture of a statue of george washington that shows the plaque, my iPhone already OCR'd that and will show the photo.

2)"minor" is not how I would ever describe sending data based off my photos to them, regardless of how much it's been stuffed through a mathematical meat grinder.

3)Apple is usually very upfront about this sort of thing, and also loves to mention the most minor, insignificant, who-gives-a-fuck feature addition in the changenotes for "point" system updates. We're talking things like "Numbers now supports setting font size in chart legends" (I'm making that up but you get the point.)

This was very clearly an "ask for forgiveness because the data we want is absolutely priceless and we'll get lots of it by the time people notice / word gets out." It's along the lines of Niantic using the massive trove of photos from the pokemon games to create 3d maps of everywhere.

I specifically use iOS because I value my privacy (and don't want my cell phone data plan, battery power, etc to be a data collection device for Google.) Sending data based off my photos is a hard, do-not-pass-go-fuck-off-and-die line in the sand for me.

It's especially shitty because they've gated a huge amount of their AI shit behind owning the current iPhone model....but apparently my several generation old iPhone is more than good enough to do some AI analysis on all my photos, to upload data for them?

Fuck everyone Apple who was involved in this.
The number of nodes and edges is quadratic and the number of Coulomb repulsions is quartic, so I expect that only is possible to draw up to ~100, perhaps ~1000 or ~10000 using some tricks or aproximations.

Anyway, if you look at the graph of #5, it has two clear parts, the left part (with 16 nodes) that is #4 and the right part (with 16 nodes) that is just another copy of #4. So the structure is like 4-4.

But if you look more carefuly, you can find four copies of #3.

3---3
\ \
3 3

If you magicaly pull the second one to the left, you get 3-3-3-3.

This construction work in all level, so even for 1000000, you will have four parts 999999-999999-999999-999999

And you can expand this in smaller parts, but the structure get's more tricky.

So I expect the 1000000 still to have a fractal like structure with four big parts that are quite similar.

One problem is that each branch can go to the right or to the left, and that is probably choosen a random. At the low level ir cause some noise in the final graphic, but at the high level you get different symmetries of the whole figure. From almos to mirror parts in #13 to a propeler in #6.

I'm not sure how spiky is #1000000. If it's a circle, I epect to see a fer radial lines that show the division 999999-999999-999999-999999. If it' not a circle, I expect to see something like in the images.

The tricky part may be to select the correct ratio of the Coulomb and Hooke forces (and the default rest lenght of the edges?). Sometimes to get a nice limit he contants used in the force model should change with N.
I'm sorry, yeah. It's more than boardrooms and garages.

I'm sorry to all.

Financial independence is just... it's nice having on top of other security and basic life guarantees.

Enjoy it while it is there.
There are some HN-alikes, such as Lobste.rs, which appears to be ~10% the size but often carries similar article selections. <https://lobste.rs/>

There is Tildes.net, which was inspired by Reddit (founder is an ex-Reddit employee). <https://tildes.net/>

There remains Metafilter, which continues to have exceptionally high S/N: <https://www.metafilter.com/>

Individual blogs and podcasts occasionally have useful discussion.

Mostly the mode seems to be waning in my experience.
Do you not sync to iCloud?
Yeah, it's somewhat interesting that they point to Debian's popcon (which is opt-in), when the statistics are basically coming from amd64, whereas I think it would be much more interesting (if possible) to see what the number of installs of fish are on openwrt (and other embedded distros). Currently the openwrt fish install is ~2MB (which is massive on a router), I wonder what the new install size will be with the rust version, and if practically they've dropped everything except desktop/server linux and MacOS?
People survived that? Looks like a giant ball of fire engulphed the entire plane as it smacked into a wall going 100+ mph.
can you provide a relevant example for this context?
Why wouldn't a screenshot of excel be a copyright infringement? It contains copyrighted visual design and text elements.

That said, it would be absolutely petty and foolish to pursue any action against it.

Games contain art, music, sound fx, text/story, motion design, and other elements that are copyrighted.

Again, it would be petty and foolish to pursue it.
That seems to be lost in translation. In my understanding of breaking news, some engine (not a landing gear) was broken due to the bird strike so the plane went around but landed without landing gears down.
I honestly don't mind the current Google Search Results page design and additional features.

For me, it's the web in general that isn't the same. Google Search is probably just as good, but I have an idea that the content to be indexed isn't what it was.

Has the world changed, or have I changed?

Probably both.

The WWW of content isn't the same, and i don't search for the same things anymore.

My use of search has become integrated in my patterns in the physical world. I need to know what products are in stock, where things are, when a restaurant is open and so on.

For those searches, Google is generally excellent I find.

Also, I actually find Google's AI Answers to be pretty decent.

Even if I do ethically disagree with denying the original content authors those page views.
I desperately wish I had been introduced to Forth when I was learning assembly circa 1984 on my Commodore. Would have changed my life.
That seems "on brand" for Mozilla, based on the sheer number of WTAF moves that org makes

And I say that even while writing this comment in Firefox
Maybe the end of an airport runway should be some form of elastic plane-load rated material & not essentially a solid wall.
next, restore noscript/basic (x)html interop on all critical/utility web sites.
From iOS app, paid 4o

> There are 4 Rs in “razzleberry.”
That is default Amazon - you can return stuff no hassle for almost any reason.
Tokyo and Singapore do not. My whole country, and family, struggle with corruption, poverty, third-world-country crime and infrastructure, extortion, gang violence, and I’m supposed to want to go back and live there and raise my kids there? Nah, there are far better places to be despite being far from family.
Yeah but why? Why hassle these guys so much? The delivery bikers take cars off the streets, they are serving people who are willingly paying, and an e-bike is less likely to kill a pedestrian. From the POV of fire and police, it’s much harder to commit crimes on e-bikes, and in absolute numbers I’m confident the fire department responds more frequently to incidents with cars. It seems like a win win for everyone in the community.

I understand why it’s a culture war. It violates beliefs. But is there truly any rational basis? I understand the aesthetics of a delivery biker violating a traffic law for cars looks bad, that it pisses people off. But brother… it’s an urban environment: it’s going to be chock full of shit that pisses you off. Why this?
> I doubt it drives subscriptions.

We would not have as many streaming subscriptions as we do if had to sit in front of the TV to watch shows, if we couldn't have shows in the background while doing laundry and other chores.
Love the shoutout to openbsd.amsterdam. It is pretty impressive how they're running a hosting company while committed to the OpenBSD stack[1].

[1]: https://openbsd.amsterdam/setup.html
Reminds me that America had a bunker with a few billion in cash for after WW3 in case all the bank servers got nuked...
> the feature has an off switch right in the Settings and a public document explaining how it works

Irrelevant.

This is Apple's proprietary software, running on Apple's computers, devices which use cryptography to prevent you from inspecting it or running software they don't control. Very few people have any idea how it actually works or what it actually does.

That there's some "public document" describing it is not evidence of anything.

> that’s not a reason to immediately assume bad faith

The mere existence of this setting is evidence of bad faith. The client side scanning nonsense proved controversial despite their use of children as political weapons. That they went ahead and did this despite the controversy removes any possible innocence. It tells you straight up that they cannot be trusted.

> Even the author of the article is concerned more about bugs than intentions.

We'll draw our own conclusions.
By way of Tildes and another comment in this thread:

"The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction"

...Instead of an eye-blackening scrum over who gets to publish the next Tom Wolfe, nobody’s quite sure that his fresh, satirical voice is worth chancing in the first place. As a consequence of this mode of thinking, literary fiction has fallen to only two percent of the fiction market. From the publishers’ perspective literary fiction is just too risky—and that risk has nothing to do with questions of form or taste. It’s much more simple and less political than that....

<https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-big-five-publishers-h...>
ChatGPT-4 (free) on Android just told me:

> There are two "R"s in the word "cranberry."
It's telling that Android, for example, has all sorts of granular permissions you can set for an app, but "Network Access" is not one of them.

My Calculator app does not need to call home.

A good portion of the apps I use fall into this category, and a straightforward mechanism to opt them out of access would be welcome.
Seems like a matter of “fatal for the airplane passengers” vs. “fatal for the airplane passengers plus motorists”
Modern passports with RFID chips already support that actually - https://www.icao.int/Security/FAL/PKD/BVRT/Pages/Basics.aspx
Not really. It's more like apple runs a local algorithm that takes your picture of the Eiffel tower, and outputs some text "Eiffel tower, person smiling", and then encrypts that text and sends it securely to apples servers to help you when you perform a search.
That sounds like "with opt in permission".
I haven’t been job hunting since around 2002, so I’m completely out of the loop. Why are people submitting fake resumes? Are they hoping to get hired despite having no skills beyond using ChatGPT? But, what happens after that? They don’t have the skills to do the job, so what was the point of getting hired?
Maybe the new setting checks a certain combination of other settings first, like:

if (setting_1 && setting_2 && !setting_3)
{
new_setting = true
}

Mine was also enabled by default.
This is really interesting. It's not unlike building a credit bureau model like a FICO score. Just trying to find a probability of likelihood outcome.
To convert links, try this: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/
nypost article i saw said two people confirmed alive
Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support
> or even use a linked list.

You must work in a super specialized industry, then
You can enable Advanced Data Protection and all your iCloud data will be stored as encrypted blobs.
I saw that! I just got to Fundamentals II today, after seeing what was in the diagnostics test, I'm really excited to keep going.
> This is what a good privacy story looks like.

I have an idea: send an encrypted, relayed, non-reversible, noised vector representation of your daily phone habits and interactions. That way you can be bucketed, completely anonymously of course, with other user cohorts for tracking, advertising, and other yet-to-be discovered purposes.

It's a great privacy story! Why would you have a problem with that?
Click baiting has been telling us to be enraged and worried about various causes for decades. Global climate change has been a thought-leader in anxiety production ("how dare you!") since it became an inconvenient truth.

Of course young people are worried and unhappy!
As far as style is concerned:

1) try to use "for := range" loops instead of the traditional for

2) "var result [4]string" - really seems like this wants to be a struct with a couple of fields.

type result struct {
id string
name string
brand string
price string
}

Makes code more self documenting:

result.id = product
result.name = e.ChildText("h3 a")
result.brand = " "
result.price = e.ChildText("span.value")

3) you could introduce a "store" struct with fields like "separator", "name", "baseProductUrl", and a "Visit" method. This would entirely eliminate the need for lines 63-73, which are static code in a for loop and a performance/code smell.

3b) The "visitStore" method does a switch on "store", but it is in a hot loop. This is a good candidate for micro-optimisation-is-the-root-of-all-evil debates later down the road. It's better to avoid those, and there's a number of simple solutions here to prevent that "constant check" in the hot loop.

4) Using defer in for loops is always a red flag. While it is technically correct, it's very likely not what you want here. Imagine that you have 10k products to visit, for 10 stores. The file for the first store will be flushed and closed only after your main function exists (your entire program in this case).
What you would want is to open a file, visit all products, flush the writes and close the file handle, and only then move on to the next store.
In other words, the lines 76-98 (the body of your main for loop) should be a separate function so your "defer"s happen when a loop iteration terminates, and not when the "main" function exists.
when i see i3, i expect it to be tiling window manager. this is not it.
Yes, they’ve said that, but gate agents at airports are the people who get to make decisions about boarding and expired documents will definitely freak them out. The issue isn’t really at border control, where there’s direct access to the databases anyway, it’s at the various stages of delegated border enforcement (boarding a plane, right to rent etc) where this will suck.

You might be able to bully them into accepting them because it’s in Timatic but there will be British residents who are blocked at least temporarily because of this.
A reasonable alternative would be for the app to have no permissions and request permissions from the OS that would either deny access or prompt the user.

Most apps have no business outside their own data/cache folders.

I think the Apple implementation is a good start.
Oh come on, it’s not like Google is better. 1. Google isn’t available in China not because of some moral reason, and they were in fact available in the past and Google has attempted to go back to China as a search engine, etc. before. They aren’t available because China hacked into their systems and took code and got access to certain accounts, and at the time Google essentially decided it wasn’t worth offering services there. There’s no reason Google wouldn’t start working in China again on a moral level. 2. Google works directly with the US Department of Defense, so as much as Apple has blood on their hands, so does Google.
The flag you want to see from a senior is reasoned examples of how they use it effectively. Ask for stories about successes and failures. By now, everyone has some.
I downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4M+ records)
Why use either when you can download songs from normal YouTube (via yt-dlp) for free?

I've indeed been asking myself that, as a current Spotify customer. The whole point of paying for a streaming service is the convenience of it combined with the monetary support of the artists on it. If Spotify is decreasingly convenient, and Spotify is decreasingly paying artists their fair share, then at some point I might as well just go back to torrenting whole discographies like it's 2005.
The article is messy in that sense, but you already knew that was the reality. It's smart people that found a system they could exploit.

In poker, the top cash players win by choosing who's (i.e., lesser players) in their games, not playing against other top players. People with math acumen are most likely to find some of these anomolies like the Stats PhD who kept winning scratch off lottos.[0]

> Its possible that there are certain gains left on the table, especially in old and early markets, but be wary of anyone being bankrolled by external forces and earning millions/billions and needing to explain that wealth with "smarts".

Do you have favorite examples in mind?

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Gint...
Why would a long tenure be a problem?